Word of the Day for Tuesday, June 26, 2012

glutch \gluhch\,
verb:
1. to swallow.
noun:
1. a mouthful.

And now Robert Creedle will be nailed up in parish boards 'a b'lieve; and nobody will glutch down a sigh for he!"
-- Thomas Hardy, "The Woodlanders"

I was, at the time, standing near Uncle Ral and I distinctly heard him gasp, swallow what must have been an overdue expectoration, glutch, and at last emit a long, slow exhalation.
-- David George Pitt, "Tales from the Outer Fringe"

Glutch is of unknown origin. It was first used in southwestern England in the early 1800s.

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